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Author: André Orléan
From Violence and Truth: On the Works of René Girard, Paul Dumouchel ed. (Stanford UP, 1988)
A critique of rationalist, utilitarian postulates of neoclassic economics, this essay uncovers the mimetic dynamics that precede and mold individual desires. The mediating, non-intrinsic value of money is consistent with a Keynesian optic on the crowd dynamics of markets. Further reproduction, use, or distribution of this material in any form or/and by any means, is prohibited without prior permission from Stanford University Press, www.sup.org
Author: Mark Anspach
Contagion 11 (2004)
A comparison of primitive and modern economies issues in a wholistic view of economic and social experience in which relations establish values, rather than the reverse, and in such a way that conforms to important aspects of religious organization.